10:05 AM,
Nov. 2, 2013

Jaerue Williams

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A White Plains man who shot dead a 21-year-old man in Port Chester last year was found guilty of manslaughter charges Wednesday but a county jury deadlocked on murder charges, which could have carried life in prison.

Jaerue Williams, 27, whom prosecutors repeatedly have called a "career criminal," also was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the killing of Wilfredo Rivera near South Regent Street.

Rivera was shot once in the chest around 12:15 a.m. Aug. 11, 2012, at point-blank range, leaving black, burning propellant on a large part of his skin and a hole near his heart. He later ...